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IBPS CWE
General Awareness Previous Year Papers Analysis: In our IBPS
clerk preparatory series we are now making analysis of the previous years IBPS Clerk
General Exam Paper Analysis so that our visitors can understand the pattern of
General Awareness paper and can prepare in a better way.

Difference
between last year and this year: In year 2011 there were 50 questions in
the General Awareness paper, from the last year the questions have been reduced to 40 questions. This year in 2013 exam is again going to be conducted through online mode.

Pattern of questions: We have made
an analysis of all the general awareness papers of the IBPS CWE of the 2011 and out of the 50 questions the topic wise breakup was as under:

Banking Awareness: 18 questions

International Affairs: 7 questions

Economy/Finance: 1 question

Traditional GK: 7 questions

Sports: 4 questions

PM/Presidents of a country: 2 questions

Books and authors: 1 question

Awards: 3 questions

Hence you can see that the question paper is a mix of different topics from current affairs, banking awareness and GK.

Apart from the
Traditional GK all other questions were related to current affairs and in
Banking Awareness the questions were a mix of current banking awareness and
also of traditional banking awareness. You can see the weight age of different
topics of General Awareness by seeing the pie diagram given here.

Level of
questions:
Level of questions in the General Awareness paper of IBPS CWE for Clerks is
generally remains easy, questions are quite basic in nature and a well prepared
student can easily score 80-90% of the questions.

Important
Books:
For Banking Awareness book of Arihant publication is quite good, apart from that one should prepare
from monthly magazines and News Papers for current affairs part. You can also
visit www.onlinegk.org where we have
provided point wise current affairs for last one year. To know more about the
good books for general awareness preparation you can click here.

What should be
the Right Strategy? Right strategy is to prepare wellwith the help of
books and study material as discussed above; meaningful discussion on current
topics with your friends is also very useful as it helps a lot in preparation,
you can also join Bank Exams Preparation Group and General Awareness for Bank Exams for better preparation and for lots of study material on current and
banking awareness. You must understand that you can easily score 90% in this
section provided you prepare well.